In light of last week’s small weight gain, I’d like to take
another moment (in addition to what I said in last week’s recap post) and
remind everyone that just because you gain some weight doesn’t mean it’s a
“bad” weight gain. This was proven to me
after I did some math with my body weight and my body fat %. I lost almost an entire pound of fat while
gaining 2 whole pounds of muscle. That’s
pretty freaking awesome in my book. And
it just makes me want to continue to rock my workouts and improve my body. So I made sure to keep up the intensity with
this week’s workouts.
• Saturday: started off with the Thin Mint
Sprint. I was originally signed up to do
the 10K but there’s no way I’m walking 6.2 miles in a boot. No way.
So I emailed them and got myself dropped down to the 5K. The 5K was an out-and-back route and the 10K
was the 5K done twice. As I was out
there on the course, I took note of the fact that not a whole lot of people
were doing a second out-and-back, which meant not a whole lot of people had
signed up to do the 10K. I will sign up
for this race again next year, and I will register for the 10K again, but I
hope to actually DO the 10K next year.
If the race field is like it was this year, I think I have a good chance
of an AG award in the 10K next year!
Heck, even if I decide to just do the 5K. 3rd place in my AG for this year
did it in 29-ish minutes. I can knock
out a 5K, if properly trained, in less than that easily. Well, maybe not “easily,” but you get the
idea. Haha.
On top of the 5K, I did go to the gym and did my machines
workout (upper body, abs and the abductor/adductor machines).
• Sunday: To start this day off, since I didn’t get
the swim done on Saturday, I made sure to go to the gym and get my swim done
this day. This week the time bumped up
to 32 minutes or 1300 meters, whichever takes longer…and I got the 1300
done! But, it took me 34 minutes. It’s all good, though!
SUNDAY FUNDAY TIME!!!!
Since even with the addition of more exercises last Sunday this workout
still doesn’t take me 60 minutes to complete, I did some more hunting around on
the internet and found even more exercises to add to the mix! October 4th is No More Stolen
Sisters Day. This is primarily a
Canadian awareness day, but now that I know about it, it’s something that means
a lot to me. What is No More Stolen
Sisters Day? It’s a day to raise
awareness of the propensity of aboriginal/native Canadian and American women to
be 3 times more likely to be a victim of violence and sexual assault by a
perpetrator NOT of their own race. Being
just shy of ¼ Cherokee decent myself, this is a cause that does hit home a
little bit for me. So, I dedicated this
day’s Sunday Funday workout to north American native women with the hopes that
they stay strong in the face of adversity.
Later in the afternoon, I walked for 3 miles around my
apartment complex.
• Monday: I had my appointment with my doctor and he
said I can take the boot off!!!! To
celebrate my liberation, I drove to the Riverside & Lamar area of Austin
and walked just over 4 miles around LadyBird Lake hike and bike trail. Later on, I went to the gym for my freestyle
workout, buuuuuuut, I waited until like 5:30 to go to the gym and there were
far, far too many people in the personal training area (where I do said
freestyle workout) that I wouldn’t have been able to do the exercises I like to
do without hitting someone on accident or us being in each others’ ways. So, since I was cleared from the boot by my
doctor this day, I had already decided I was going to do the elliptical for 20
minutes, so I just extended it a little and did 3 miles on the elliptical.
• Tuesday: [mental] therapy day again! I did my usual walking pre- and post-appointment
and exceeded my basic 10,000 steps for the day, then went to the gym to make up
for not being able to do my freestyle workout on Monday. I started with 20 minutes (1.8 miles) on the
elliptical, then did my workout with the addition of resistance band side
steps.
I go into a kind of half-squat position when I do these and
am not straight legged like the guy in the picture. I also added non-weighted squats on the BOSU
ball. I put the ball part down and stood
on the platform for the squats. I also
decided to add an ab exercise. I used
the adjustable cable machine in the personal training area and did woodchoppers
with it. To round off this super active
day, I swam 1300 meters in 32minutes…2 minutes faster than Sunday’s swim of the
same distance.
• Wednesday: I went to the gym and started things off
with spin class! I haven’t taken a spin
class in years and the last one I took was crap. The instructor wasn’t very charismatic and
didn’t inspire me to push myself, so I didn’t get much out of that class. This day’s spin class, however, was GREAT! The instructor was amazing and fun and kept
up a constant chatter. Loved it! Then, I did my machines workout at the gym
today. Now that I’m out of the boot, I
can add back in some lower body machines.
So, in addition to all the upper body machines I’ve been doing (plus the
ab machine and the abductor/adductor machines, of course), I added the calf
raise, leg extension, leg curl, leg press, and kickbacks on the leg press
machine. However, I probably won’t do
the kickbacks in the future. It just
didn’t hit my glute muscles like I wanted it to. I’ll have to find another exercise for
that. Any ideas?
• Thursday: I took this day as an “active rest day.” What does that mean? I means I didn’t do any exercise that could
be considered as “strenuous.” I was
going to do the elliptical and then swim 1300 meters. But, I decided that I wanted this to be an
active rest day so that meant the swim was out.
So I just did the elliptical for 65 minutes and 5.6 miles.
• Friday: I went to the gym and hit the elliptical
for 65 minutes and 5.4 miles. After that,
I did a hodge podge workout consisting of these exercises:
• BOSU squats
• BOSU lunges
• front arm raises
• side arm raises
• woodchoppers
• side bends
• resistance band side steps
• TRX ab tucks
• TRX pistol squats
• TRX tricep extensions
• hammer curls
I really love this workout and will definitely be putting it
into rotation along with my full body machines workout and my freestyle gym
workout. Oh and then there’s my home
workout that is kettlebells and bodyweight exercises and pull ups and
stairs. So that’s 4 separate strength
training workouts!
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Last Friday, I told you I went to the State Fair of
Texas. I had never been before and, in
fact, hadn’t been to ANY state fair since I was in high school during the
summer between my junior and senior years.
Not to reveal just how old I actually am, but that was 20 years
ago. I don’t remember the Oregon state
fair being so obnoxious. There were so
many vendors of services and products that were beyond pushy and were just
pissing me off and making the fair less and less fun that it already was to
start off with. One thing I did, for
sure, enjoy was the food. Me and my
friend Sam started our food adventure with Slovacek’s Czech Stop on the way to
the fair and got some fancy kolaches (so glad this place is an hour drive away
from me or I’d be fat again in no time…seriously, if you’re driving in Texas and
you’re on IH-35 between Dallas and Austin, I highly recommend you stop and get
a couple kolaches!). At the fair, I
indulged in a small piece of some of the best bread pudding I’ve ever eaten, a
piece of fried cheesecake, some kettlecorn and a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut
bacon cheeseburger. I kind of regret the
burger just because it really wasn’t all that great. I mean, it was GOOD, just not great like I
was thinking it would be. After all
that indulging, you better believe I was soooooooo freaking happy to get back
to my low calorie, low carb, intermittent fasting way of eating come
Saturday. Oh and not to mention the
heartburn I had to deal with post-indulgence.
Ugh. Just more motivation to keep
eating the way I’ve been eating lately.
On Saturday I had a little continuation of the
indulging. I had way too many slices of
pumpkin spice bread and a double serving of homemade crockpot beef
brisket. After that, I actually and
truly was ready to be back to my usual restriction and schedule of eating. I know that one or even two days of over
eating do not spell disaster or backsliding.
The failure to nip that trend in the bud and the allowing of it to
continue are what spells disaster. And
that I definitely will NOT be doing. Despite
the readiness to be back on plan, cravings were really difficult this
week. I struggled for most of the week
with snacking on things I “shouldn’t have been” snacking on. I mean, no junk, just extra calories from
nuts and dried fruit mostly. I never
went over my 1550 calorie cap for any given day, but still…I do really like to
stay below 1300. As the week went on, my
cravings did lessen and get much easier to deal with.
I want to say that this week, after last week’s gain, even
though I was like 90+% okay with it (after doing the math), still bothered me
on some lower level. I want to say that
for the majority of this week, every time I looked in the mirror I looked
bloated. I have no idea if this was just
my mind messing with me, but it really got to me. It really did a number on my self-esteem this
week and I didn’t like it. I really hate
that I’m so sensitive to this kind of stuff.
I really want to hit my goal weight.
I was hoping to hit my goal weight before starting to really hit the
muscle building process. I was even
thinking I might drop my goal weight by 5 pounds, but with last week’s apparent
2 lbs of muscle gain, I don’t think that’s really achievable. And I’m okay with that. I just want to be the best version of myself
that I can be. I do really love the look
of strong muscles on myself. But I am
finding it really difficult to cut the fat off my body. Maybe being out of the boot and actually
being able to do cardio will help with that.
We’ll see.
Also, SHIN SPLINT!
Yes, I left the “s” off the end of that on purpose. Why?
Because I only have one. My left
shin area is just fine, but my right shin is definitely…splinty. I know it’s because all the stabilizing
muscles in my right leg are severely lacking at the moment. The shin splint will resolve itself
eventually. I probably should break out
my lacrosse ball and do some fascia smoothing along my shin. I should also probably do the homework that
Airrosti had me do while I was seeing them a few years ago right as I was
starting to run originally. I know doing
those 2 things will help immensely.
And now to the scale!
Woohoooooooooo! I lost
2 pounds and .3% body fat this week! I am
super happy with this. I am now just 3.2
lbs away from my goal weight!!!
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